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I dont recall. Williams did remember being asked to wear a wire to record a conversation with the governor. Williams said he stopped the conversation right there and called his lawyer. He said he gave the mcdonnells 10,065,000 in loans and gifts so that 165,000 in loans and gifts so that the governor would have the state support his product. The first lady governor maureenmcdonnell. You said governor. Im excited with what hes done with Star Scientific and really thrilled to be here in your state. Reporter Maureen Mcdonnells defense team said Jonnie Williams played her taking advantage of her troubled marriage to the governor. Defense attorneys say 1,200 texts and phone calls between the two prove they had a close relationship, driving home that point this email from mrs. Mcdonnell to Jonnie Williams right after that rthquake. She said, i just felt the earth move and i wasnt having sex. Jonnie williams said he didnt recall that message but thought it was funny. Governor mcdonnell said he considered williams a very good friend. Ive got tremendous lawyers and i think crossexamination is important and well see how the truth comes out today. Reporter are you looking forward to taking a stand, governor . Yes. Reporter williams is back on the stand monday morning for week two in this corruption trial. In richmond peggy fox, wusa9. A lot of grist for the mill and stuff for us to talk about tonight. White collar criminal defense attorney barack cohen is back with us. Lets get back with that email i felt the earth move and i wasnt having sex, does that show something to the jury about the nature of their relationship . It sure does. The defense has argued from the get go that all this is about Jonnie Williams and Maureen Mcdonnell and how she viewed her relationship to him. This had nothing to do with the governor and that email really chips away at williams testimony when the prosecution had him up. Theres also the matter of the Text Messages between the two. At least one day they had some overnight messages. Jonnie williams said he does not remember those messages which is interesting in light of the other things he doesnt remember. It seems like he does not remember a lot and the defense is doing a lot job chipping away at what the prosecution was able to get out of williams. Upon direct williams was saying a lot of things for the prosecution that really seemed to help the governments case. Now hes not remembering very much talking to the defense. It was a general sense yesterday this guy was a great witness, so smooth and articulate. Has that been chipped away a bit now . I think it has been. This really goes to the power of crossexamination in the hands of skillful lawyers, although to kind of bring this home, if governor mcdonnell testifies, the prosecution will have a shot at him. A lot of the case around the defense seems to be saying it wasnt the governor. It was his wife, always the wife. That made some progress today as well when we found out williams says hey, mcdonnell didnt know about the rolex. He didnt know where the car came from. He didnt ask to use the Vacation Home or the plane. Thats exactly right. I was here a few days ago and said if theres no conspiracy, theres really no case against the mcdonnells as least as far as bribery charges and if they cant show governor mcdonnell knew about these gifts coming from Jonnie Williams, if the prosecution cant show he was in cahoots with his wife, theres no bribery case here. Is it significant we found out also today the governor turned down a plea deal . He could have pled guilty to a charge and Maureen Mcdonnell would have had no charges at all . The defense can play up and say were here telling the truth and, of course, we werent going to accept a plea deal because we knew the governor and Maureen Mcdonnell were innocent. They can make a point with that. Thank you, sir. Were having an interesting time talking about this case. Indeed. Weve got three or four more weeks to go. Only on 9 tonight more trouble in a sterling home thats already seen plenty of problems. Police arrested a teenager for child porn in a house where another teen was shot to death just a year ago. Bruce leshan brings us the story. Reporter the latest incident in the erling home, the morning arrest of 19year old Connor Flores led from the house by police in handcuffs and later charged with seven counts of felony possession of child pornography. I dont know what hes capable of or that family is capable of. Reporter shawn gordley says the detention of his neighbor comes as no surprise to him. Just over a year ago gordleys 16yearold son caleb apparently tipsy and confused stumbled through the neighbors back window in the middle of the night. Looks just the same. So he went in thinking it was his house. Reporter the neighbor fired three shots killing the teenager. Police never charged the homeowner with any crime. My son who was absolutely unarmed showing no sign of immigration was shot in the back. I wouldnt have shot anybody in the back. Reporter gordley says that flores, the teenager detained now in the child porn investigation, is a bit of a recluse. I dont know what kind of culture is being brooded in that house, but its one that i no longer want to be associated with. Reporter so youre leaving . Im leaving. Im moving next week. Reporter he cannot bear looking any more at the house where his some died. Im afraid for my daughter. What if she is coming home one night out front in the middle of the night . Reporter in sterling bruce leshan, wusa9. Virginia state police say todays arrest has nothing to do with the death of Caleb Gordley in march of 2013. Police say 18yearold Sebastian Reyes lost control of a Ford Expedition and hit a car this morning between route 50 and annapolis road and you can see the traffic backups there. The driver of that car, 59year old karen holt williams, died on the way to the hospital. That accident tied up traffic on the outer loop for hours. Crash investigators will present their findings to the Prince Georges County States Attorneys Office to determine whether that cadet will face charges connected to the crash. Two americans infected with the ebola virus are headed to atlanta for treatment. This will be the First Time Ever that a patient with that virus will be treated here in this country. Health officials call this Ebola Outbreak the worst ever and so far the viral disease has infected more than 1,300 people in west africa and more than 700 of them have diat emery hospital in atlanta are preparing for the arrival of at least one american ebola patient. The key is identifying, quarantining, isolating those who contract it and making sure that practices are in place that avoid transmission. Dr. Kent brantley and nancy ripold were working in liberia when they were infected. They were both given serum. This plane was retrofitted with medical equipment and an Isolation Chamber to transfer the patients. Unless theres essential travel to that area, theyre discouraging it at this point. A doctor of Inova Fairfax says the virus can affect every part of the body and once infected you can get organ dysfunction, liver failure and septic shock. People can start out with symptoms such as fatigue, malaise, weakness and then as they get more sick they can have symptoms such as headache, vomiting, diarrhea. The virus is spread through body contact, but dr. Ambaro says we dont have to be too concerned in the metro area. People in the United States at this point are not really at risk, but theyre cautioning that we need to be extremely careful. It can take up to 10 days for symptoms of the ebola virus to occur once a person is infected. A commuter alert, that water main break in hyattsville forced crews to shut down rhode island avenue route 1 both directions between 43rd street and charles almantrot drive. That stretch of road will through saturday. The speed limit was officially lowered today on a dangerous stretch of route 1 in college park. Drivers are not allowed to legally go over 25 Miles Per Hour near the intersection with hardwick road. Three people have been killed in Downtown College park since last january, all struck by cars late at night as the bars in the area were closing. Several of them were students. In addition to lowering the speed limit, the maryland state Highway Administration plans to introduce new measures to improve safety in that area. How much would you pay to have your favorite musician play a private concert for you and your friends . A whole lot. Well talk about that and other trending topics at 5 30. Way back in college i was thinking of starting a business doing that. Anyway we digress. Well show you radar, a couple of showers and storms beginning to pop in Southern Maryland moving northward and well talk about our yellow alert through tomorrow, if you have any spots where you may be able to do some stuff outside. Reporter getting paid to shop may sound too good to be true and many times it is. Coming up ill tell you about the secret shopper scam. The fighting resumed in the middle east again today just hours after a fragile ceasefire collapsed. The Israeli Military bombed gaza after one of its soldiers was kidnapped and dragged into a tunnel by hamas militants. This is day no. 25 for this dead lo conflict. Palestinians say a deadly conflict. Palestinians say a fierce battle in Southern Gaza left at least 30 people dead. A day that began with a promise of peace erupted into more deadly violence. A terrorist came out with a suicide belt, blew himself up, killed two. Another gunman came out, shoots him and then abducted one of our officers. The father of that abducted soldier says he is sure the israeli army will and we quote look under every rock in gaza for his son. The ceasefire was supposed to ua last three days. The truce was over, though, in less than two hours. The house of representatives is working on a new deal with tens of thousands of children streaming into the u. S. From central america. Tea Party Republicans blame president obama for creating the problem when he signed an executive order delaying the deportation of some of those children. The president says he plans to take additional action on an Immigration Reform when the house and senate are on their summer recess. Economists are calling it another solid month of job growth, the Labor Department saying the u. S. Economy added more than 200,000 new jobs last month. This would make this the sixth straight month that job growth has topped 200,000. On the downside, though, the jobless rate jumped slightly to 6. 2 . It was a rough morning out there if you were commuting on the beltway in Prince Georges County. In addition to the fatal crash near lanham, there was another traffic nightmare in lap dover. An estimated 60,000 people landover. An estimated 60,000 people were clogging the road trying to get to fedex backing up traffic on the inner loop for miles. The only station with weather alert days, wusa9 first alert weather. Were not happy about this weekend. I want to emphasize a couple things. Its not going to rain continuously. Youll be dancing around some showers, but its not going to be a washout. I am happy about the weekend. You are . Why . Because the weekend is here. Good point. We do have a yellow alert tonight and also tomorrow. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam clouds here keeping temps down the first day of august. Its 80. The relative humidity is not that high at 54 . Dew points are still in the low 60s. Thats actually a pretty good deal for early august. Heres the radar over the past couple hours. Most of the activity has been moving into Southern Maryland, st. Marys county and Calvert County and part of Charles County over across the bay. Now we have this little area in northern and northwestern Charles County. Good news, its weakened in the past half hour. Bad news, it still some pretty good rains west of waldorf running down 210. Red is rainfall rates about 1 inch per hour. Its moving already due north toward the stadium, moving toward oxon hill about 5 31 and silver hill about 5 36. The good news is it will weaken as it moves northward and its going to clear nats stadium before the game starts. Just a slight chance of a shower, not a washout. Well see an isolated shower or thunderstorm overnight. So tonight is one of our respite periods. Then tomorrow morning a lot of activity develops, the heaviest activity east of i95 tomorrow morning, Prince Georges County, Southern Maryland again get ready for big thunderstorms. Saturday nice just isolated showers possible, but i think youll be able to do some stuff outside saturday night and saturday afternoon, too. 4 30 in the morning, i want to stop here because this is our slug of moisture that comes up overnight and by 8 00 theres some breaks in the clouds. Theres a couple sprinkles and showers, but you can play golf in that, garden in that, certainly can jog. By 9 30 its 70 downtown, 60s in the burbs, not that much activity. Yes, a fair amount of clouds and a couple showers. The focus during the afternoon will shift from east of 95 back to the west along i81 corridor as we get into the evening hours saturday. So keep that in mind. You guys wont have a respite saturday night. In the immediate metro area area i think we will. By 6 p. M. Maybe a shower Loudoun County and culpeper but again the coverage is pretty few and far between and now its all green which is light activity. Thats good news. 8 00 tomorrow night 76 downtown, low 70s in the burbs and by 10 00 breaks in the clouds from manassas to gaithersburg and most of the showers confined to the Shenandoah Valley and the mountains. By midnight temperatures still in the upper 60s to around 70. So again not a washout. Day planner, 68 at 7 00, some showers and storms possible, 70 at 9 00, 72 at 11 00 and 76 by 1 00. Those showers will wane in the afternoon by 1 00, 2 00 in the metro area. Sunday well keep it green for now, scattered storms, 83 and then isolated storm monday, temperatures in the upper 80s. Next seven days tuesday isolated storm, near 90 and maybe a storm wednesday, mid 80s. Look at this, very nice on thursday and friday, temperatures only in the mid 80s with low humidity. In tonights consumer alert an old scam is making a comeback. The Better Business bureau is warning americans about the return of the secret shopper escape. Reporter Michelle Falco was excited when she got a letter in the mail asking her to be a secret shopper. I thought it would be cool. Youll be able to shop, keep your product and make money. Reporter the letter claiming to be from home depot came with a check for almost 1,500. All she had to do was deposit the check and start shopping at home depots competitors. Then i was to do a survey of the customer service. Reporter after this falco was supposed to return any unused money, but it was all a scam. Heres how it works. When a scam victim deposits the fake certified check, the bank gives them the funds up front even though the check has yet to clear. The victim uses the money to shop and wires whats left over to the con artist. Theyll end up wiring the rest of the money to a different country. Reporter days or even weeks later the bank finds out the check is fake and once it does the victim is on the hook for 1,500 has to pay the bank back. The Better Business bureau and major retailers including home depot warn customers about secret shopper scams. Im struggling now financially and im like this cant be real. Reporter falcos instincts were right. She never deposited the check. Instead she asked her bank to look into it. They confirmed it was a fake. Now she wants to make sure other people dont fall victim to the scam. Thats a smart woman there. The home depot encourages you to call and verify any job offers you might receive that use the home depot name. Through rain, through sleet and snow this postman says its time to go. A little later on a Community Says goodbye to their beloved mailman of more than 30 years. Right after the break bill clinton explains why he didnt kill Osama Bin Laden when he had the that pain at the pump, indeed it could be driving you crazy this weekend unless you accept our help. Taking a look at gas prices in Upper Marlboro you can fill up for 3. 40 at the gas and go at 4109 craine highway, but if you just like spending money, go up the street, 3. 60 a gallon at the dash in food store at 9222 craine highway. Nobody likes spending extra money for the record. Some remarks from former president bill clinton just hours before the september 11th attacks are causing an outcry tonight. Clinton said he passed on the chance to kill Osama Bin Laden with a military strike in 1998. The former president said he decided against launching that concern for civilians in the area. Australias sky news released the audiotape this week. The former head of australias liberal party said he had forgotten about the tape until last week. The outgoing House Majority leader congressman eric cantor plans to leave office august 18th. The Star Scientific<\/a> and really thrilled to be here in your state. Reporter Maureen Mcdonnells<\/a> defense team said Jonnie Williams<\/a> played her taking advantage of her troubled marriage to the governor. Defense attorneys say 1,200 texts and phone calls between the two prove they had a close relationship, driving home that point this email from mrs. Mcdonnell to Jonnie Williams<\/a> right after that rthquake. She said, i just felt the earth move and i wasnt having sex. Jonnie williams said he didnt recall that message but thought it was funny. Governor mcdonnell said he considered williams a very good friend. Ive got tremendous lawyers and i think crossexamination is important and well see how the truth comes out today. Reporter are you looking forward to taking a stand, governor . Yes. Reporter williams is back on the stand monday morning for week two in this corruption trial. In richmond peggy fox, wusa9. A lot of grist for the mill and stuff for us to talk about tonight. White collar criminal defense attorney barack cohen is back with us. Lets get back with that email i felt the earth move and i wasnt having sex, does that show something to the jury about the nature of their relationship . It sure does. The defense has argued from the get go that all this is about Jonnie Williams<\/a> and Maureen Mcdonnell<\/a> and how she viewed her relationship to him. This had nothing to do with the governor and that email really chips away at williams testimony when the prosecution had him up. Theres also the matter of the Text Messages<\/a> between the two. At least one day they had some overnight messages. Jonnie williams said he does not remember those messages which is interesting in light of the other things he doesnt remember. It seems like he does not remember a lot and the defense is doing a lot job chipping away at what the prosecution was able to get out of williams. Upon direct williams was saying a lot of things for the prosecution that really seemed to help the governments case. Now hes not remembering very much talking to the defense. It was a general sense yesterday this guy was a great witness, so smooth and articulate. Has that been chipped away a bit now . I think it has been. This really goes to the power of crossexamination in the hands of skillful lawyers, although to kind of bring this home, if governor mcdonnell testifies, the prosecution will have a shot at him. A lot of the case around the defense seems to be saying it wasnt the governor. It was his wife, always the wife. That made some progress today as well when we found out williams says hey, mcdonnell didnt know about the rolex. He didnt know where the car came from. He didnt ask to use the Vacation Home<\/a> or the plane. Thats exactly right. I was here a few days ago and said if theres no conspiracy, theres really no case against the mcdonnells as least as far as bribery charges and if they cant show governor mcdonnell knew about these gifts coming from Jonnie Williams<\/a>, if the prosecution cant show he was in cahoots with his wife, theres no bribery case here. Is it significant we found out also today the governor turned down a plea deal . He could have pled guilty to a charge and Maureen Mcdonnell<\/a> would have had no charges at all . The defense can play up and say were here telling the truth and, of course, we werent going to accept a plea deal because we knew the governor and Maureen Mcdonnell<\/a> were innocent. They can make a point with that. Thank you, sir. Were having an interesting time talking about this case. Indeed. Weve got three or four more weeks to go. Only on 9 tonight more trouble in a sterling home thats already seen plenty of problems. Police arrested a teenager for child porn in a house where another teen was shot to death just a year ago. Bruce leshan brings us the story. Reporter the latest incident in the erling home, the morning arrest of 19year old Connor Flores<\/a> led from the house by police in handcuffs and later charged with seven counts of felony possession of child pornography. I dont know what hes capable of or that family is capable of. Reporter shawn gordley says the detention of his neighbor comes as no surprise to him. Just over a year ago gordleys 16yearold son caleb apparently tipsy and confused stumbled through the neighbors back window in the middle of the night. Looks just the same. So he went in thinking it was his house. Reporter the neighbor fired three shots killing the teenager. Police never charged the homeowner with any crime. My son who was absolutely unarmed showing no sign of immigration was shot in the back. I wouldnt have shot anybody in the back. Reporter gordley says that flores, the teenager detained now in the child porn investigation, is a bit of a recluse. I dont know what kind of culture is being brooded in that house, but its one that i no longer want to be associated with. Reporter so youre leaving . Im leaving. Im moving next week. Reporter he cannot bear looking any more at the house where his some died. Im afraid for my daughter. What if she is coming home one night out front in the middle of the night . Reporter in sterling bruce leshan, wusa9. Virginia state police say todays arrest has nothing to do with the death of Caleb Gordley<\/a> in march of 2013. Police say 18yearold Sebastian Reyes<\/a> lost control of a Ford Expedition<\/a> and hit a car this morning between route 50 and annapolis road and you can see the traffic backups there. The driver of that car, 59year old karen holt williams, died on the way to the hospital. That accident tied up traffic on the outer loop for hours. Crash investigators will present their findings to the Prince Georges County<\/a> States Attorneys Office<\/a> to determine whether that cadet will face charges connected to the crash. Two americans infected with the ebola virus are headed to atlanta for treatment. This will be the First Time Ever<\/a> that a patient with that virus will be treated here in this country. Health officials call this Ebola Outbreak<\/a> the worst ever and so far the viral disease has infected more than 1,300 people in west africa and more than 700 of them have diat emery hospital in atlanta are preparing for the arrival of at least one american ebola patient. The key is identifying, quarantining, isolating those who contract it and making sure that practices are in place that avoid transmission. Dr. Kent brantley and nancy ripold were working in liberia when they were infected. They were both given serum. This plane was retrofitted with medical equipment and an Isolation Chamber<\/a> to transfer the patients. Unless theres essential travel to that area, theyre discouraging it at this point. A doctor of Inova Fairfax<\/a> says the virus can affect every part of the body and once infected you can get organ dysfunction, liver failure and septic shock. People can start out with symptoms such as fatigue, malaise, weakness and then as they get more sick they can have symptoms such as headache, vomiting, diarrhea. The virus is spread through body contact, but dr. Ambaro says we dont have to be too concerned in the metro area. People in the United States<\/a> at this point are not really at risk, but theyre cautioning that we need to be extremely careful. It can take up to 10 days for symptoms of the ebola virus to occur once a person is infected. A commuter alert, that water main break in hyattsville forced crews to shut down rhode island avenue route 1 both directions between 43rd street and charles almantrot drive. That stretch of road will through saturday. The speed limit was officially lowered today on a dangerous stretch of route 1 in college park. Drivers are not allowed to legally go over 25 Miles Per Hour<\/a> near the intersection with hardwick road. Three people have been killed in Downtown College<\/a> park since last january, all struck by cars late at night as the bars in the area were closing. Several of them were students. In addition to lowering the speed limit, the maryland state Highway Administration<\/a> plans to introduce new measures to improve safety in that area. How much would you pay to have your favorite musician play a private concert for you and your friends . A whole lot. Well talk about that and other trending topics at 5 30. Way back in college i was thinking of starting a business doing that. Anyway we digress. Well show you radar, a couple of showers and storms beginning to pop in Southern Maryland<\/a> moving northward and well talk about our yellow alert through tomorrow, if you have any spots where you may be able to do some stuff outside. Reporter getting paid to shop may sound too good to be true and many times it is. Coming up ill tell you about the secret shopper scam. The fighting resumed in the middle east again today just hours after a fragile ceasefire collapsed. The Israeli Military<\/a> bombed gaza after one of its soldiers was kidnapped and dragged into a tunnel by hamas militants. This is day no. 25 for this dead lo conflict. Palestinians say a deadly conflict. Palestinians say a fierce battle in Southern Gaza<\/a> left at least 30 people dead. A day that began with a promise of peace erupted into more deadly violence. A terrorist came out with a suicide belt, blew himself up, killed two. Another gunman came out, shoots him and then abducted one of our officers. The father of that abducted soldier says he is sure the israeli army will and we quote look under every rock in gaza for his son. The ceasefire was supposed to ua last three days. The truce was over, though, in less than two hours. The house of representatives is working on a new deal with tens of thousands of children streaming into the u. S. From central america. Tea Party Republicans<\/a> blame president obama for creating the problem when he signed an executive order delaying the deportation of some of those children. The president says he plans to take additional action on an Immigration Reform<\/a> when the house and senate are on their summer recess. Economists are calling it another solid month of job growth, the Labor Department<\/a> saying the u. S. Economy added more than 200,000 new jobs last month. This would make this the sixth straight month that job growth has topped 200,000. On the downside, though, the jobless rate jumped slightly to 6. 2 . It was a rough morning out there if you were commuting on the beltway in Prince Georges County<\/a>. In addition to the fatal crash near lanham, there was another traffic nightmare in lap dover. An estimated 60,000 people landover. An estimated 60,000 people were clogging the road trying to get to fedex backing up traffic on the inner loop for miles. The only station with weather alert days, wusa9 first alert weather. Were not happy about this weekend. I want to emphasize a couple things. Its not going to rain continuously. Youll be dancing around some showers, but its not going to be a washout. I am happy about the weekend. You are . Why . Because the weekend is here. Good point. We do have a yellow alert tonight and also tomorrow. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam clouds here keeping temps down the first day of august. Its 80. The relative humidity is not that high at 54 . Dew points are still in the low 60s. Thats actually a pretty good deal for early august. Heres the radar over the past couple hours. Most of the activity has been moving into Southern Maryland<\/a>, st. Marys county and Calvert County<\/a> and part of Charles County<\/a> over across the bay. Now we have this little area in northern and northwestern Charles County<\/a>. Good news, its weakened in the past half hour. Bad news, it still some pretty good rains west of waldorf running down 210. Red is rainfall rates about 1 inch per hour. Its moving already due north toward the stadium, moving toward oxon hill about 5 31 and silver hill about 5 36. The good news is it will weaken as it moves northward and its going to clear nats stadium before the game starts. Just a slight chance of a shower, not a washout. Well see an isolated shower or thunderstorm overnight. So tonight is one of our respite periods. Then tomorrow morning a lot of activity develops, the heaviest activity east of i95 tomorrow morning, Prince Georges County<\/a>, Southern Maryland<\/a> again get ready for big thunderstorms. Saturday nice just isolated showers possible, but i think youll be able to do some stuff outside saturday night and saturday afternoon, too. 4 30 in the morning, i want to stop here because this is our slug of moisture that comes up overnight and by 8 00 theres some breaks in the clouds. Theres a couple sprinkles and showers, but you can play golf in that, garden in that, certainly can jog. By 9 30 its 70 downtown, 60s in the burbs, not that much activity. Yes, a fair amount of clouds and a couple showers. The focus during the afternoon will shift from east of 95 back to the west along i81 corridor as we get into the evening hours saturday. So keep that in mind. You guys wont have a respite saturday night. In the immediate metro area area i think we will. By 6 p. M. Maybe a shower Loudoun County<\/a> and culpeper but again the coverage is pretty few and far between and now its all green which is light activity. Thats good news. 8 00 tomorrow night 76 downtown, low 70s in the burbs and by 10 00 breaks in the clouds from manassas to gaithersburg and most of the showers confined to the Shenandoah Valley<\/a> and the mountains. By midnight temperatures still in the upper 60s to around 70. So again not a washout. Day planner, 68 at 7 00, some showers and storms possible, 70 at 9 00, 72 at 11 00 and 76 by 1 00. Those showers will wane in the afternoon by 1 00, 2 00 in the metro area. Sunday well keep it green for now, scattered storms, 83 and then isolated storm monday, temperatures in the upper 80s. Next seven days tuesday isolated storm, near 90 and maybe a storm wednesday, mid 80s. Look at this, very nice on thursday and friday, temperatures only in the mid 80s with low humidity. In tonights consumer alert an old scam is making a comeback. The Better Business<\/a> bureau is warning americans about the return of the secret shopper escape. Reporter Michelle Falco<\/a> was excited when she got a letter in the mail asking her to be a secret shopper. I thought it would be cool. Youll be able to shop, keep your product and make money. Reporter the letter claiming to be from home depot came with a check for almost 1,500. All she had to do was deposit the check and start shopping at home depots competitors. Then i was to do a survey of the customer service. Reporter after this falco was supposed to return any unused money, but it was all a scam. Heres how it works. When a scam victim deposits the fake certified check, the bank gives them the funds up front even though the check has yet to clear. The victim uses the money to shop and wires whats left over to the con artist. Theyll end up wiring the rest of the money to a different country. Reporter days or even weeks later the bank finds out the check is fake and once it does the victim is on the hook for 1,500 has to pay the bank back. The Better Business<\/a> bureau and major retailers including home depot warn customers about secret shopper scams. Im struggling now financially and im like this cant be real. Reporter falcos instincts were right. She never deposited the check. Instead she asked her bank to look into it. They confirmed it was a fake. Now she wants to make sure other people dont fall victim to the scam. Thats a smart woman there. The home depot encourages you to call and verify any job offers you might receive that use the home depot name. Through rain, through sleet and snow this postman says its time to go. A little later on a Community Says<\/a> goodbye to their beloved mailman of more than 30 years. Right after the break bill clinton explains why he didnt kill Osama Bin Laden<\/a> when he had the that pain at the pump, indeed it could be driving you crazy this weekend unless you accept our help. Taking a look at gas prices in Upper Marlboro<\/a> you can fill up for 3. 40 at the gas and go at 4109 craine highway, but if you just like spending money, go up the street, 3. 60 a gallon at the dash in food store at 9222 craine highway. Nobody likes spending extra money for the record. Some remarks from former president bill clinton just hours before the september 11th attacks are causing an outcry tonight. Clinton said he passed on the chance to kill Osama Bin Laden<\/a> with a military strike in 1998. The former president said he decided against launching that concern for civilians in the area. Australias sky news released the audiotape this week. The former head of australias liberal party said he had forgotten about the tape until last week. The outgoing House Majority<\/a> leader congressman eric cantor plans to leave office august 18th. The Virginia Republican<\/a> says the Richmond Times<\/a> dispatch says he will ask the governor, to call a special election. That will enable the governor to have the special election and fill the office immediately. Cantors surprise announcement follows his primary election loss and tonight mcauliffes office says they are reviewing this request. This weekend just may well be a good time to stock up on your back to School Supplies<\/a> even though school is a few weeks off. Virginias sales tax holiday runs today through sunday. Over the three days of this event shoes, clothes, anything costing less than 100 apiece will be exempt from virginia sales tax and the same thing goes for most of the School Supplies<\/a> that cost 20 bucks or less, no limit how much swag you might pick up. Unfortunately, though, there are some families in our area who cant afford any back to school swag at all. Thats why weve teamed up with toyota and volunteers of america to help with volunteer operation backpack. Our jan jeffcoat spoke with some of the kids at the Baileys Crossroads<\/a> Community Shelter<\/a> in falls church, virginia. Reporter what do you want to be when you grow up . Maybe like a teacher. Reporter why . Because in my school they get treats and everything. Reporter the teachers get treats . Uhhuh. Reporter what kind of treats . Fruits, popcorn, coffee, and tea. Reporter what about the kids . Nothing. Reporter what do you want to be when you grow up . A police. Reporter Police Officer<\/a> . Why is that . Because its like we can like take care of people and dogs, too. Be part of the first Online School<\/a> supply drive with wusa9 operation backpack. Go to www. Wusa9. Com and then on the lefthand side of the page youll see operation backpack. Click on it. Then choose a childs profile and you can purchase directly from their amazon wish list. The School Supplies<\/a> will be sent directly to that organization for that child. A 17yearold is on trial today accused of illegally sexting his 15yearold girl friend. Hank silverberg takes a look at an issue parents need to know about coming up at 6 00. Plus poor plumbing and rambunctious rodents. You know what that means, russ ptacek and the restaurant alert. Trending now a d. C. Man goes all out to get Kenny Loggins<\/a> in his living room. A sandwich so gluttonous we cant believe its legal. And james brown dance lessons that will make you say trending now how much would you pay to have your favorite artist perform right in living room . I have fantasized about this kind of thing for year, but a 28yearold man in d. C. Is using kickstarter to make his dream come true. Hes raising 30,000 to get kenny rogers to come his house. Hes already got more than 1,000 bucks. A 50 donation gets you a t shirt. 300 bucks gets you a guaranteed invite to the concert. Only 50 lucky people can attend. This is it. Make no mistake where you are. Oh, boy. I knew it was coming. Did you see last nights president s race at the nats game . Teddy was swept up by an unexpected contestant. I think teddys got this race in the bag. Nothings going to stop him now except oh, sharknado takes out teddy sharknado. Look at the sharknado, though ts the real life manifestation of the sharknado . I dont know about that. They tried to get you, but you were busy. A baseball trade prompted a mean style twitter war between two stations in tampa and detroit. After the race sent david price packing to motown the fox station in tampa tweeted this out. Good luck david. Their sarcasm is noted. Theyve got pictures of detroit and tampa right next to each other. I take offense to this. My city does not look that bad. Not the whole city. That prompted this response from fox in detroit making fun of tampas abysmal attendance. Take that. Yeah, theres nobody there. Fox tampa ended the whole thing with this ron burgundy meme and a message. We apologize, detroit. We wish david the best of luck no matter where he is. That escalated quickly. This next story about a menu item in a restaurant in philadelphia has us asking one of two questions. Why would you do this or perhaps why didnt it happen sooner . Its a donut cheesesteak burger. Reporter yup, the brand new menu item, the full fat glazed donut cheesesteak burger stopped with a slab of cheddar. Some might call it a heart attack on a donut. In case you missed that it was a glazed donut cheesesteak burger. Thaurant is called pyt or pretty young thing. You might not stay too pretty or too young if you eat like that. No. Its in a place where food rules are sort of weak for the stomach and i guess they abide by one code there which is if youre eating this, you dont need to know something. Thats busy chef ken slicing the glazed donut, frying the meat. Vegetarians look away and dont even ask about the fat content. As you can see, we dont count calories. You cant. If youre eating a donut and a cheesesteak burger, obviously youre not too concerned about health food. I thought the donut was perfect until they came out with the cronut or the dossant. The cronut is quite good. The meat thing not so much. Opening up in theaters today get on up. Its the new james brown movie starring chadwick bozeman. Lets have some funky music to set the mood. Turns out bozeman trained for five hours a day for two months to get those moves down. You know, looks to me like he might be doing godfather better than the godfather. He is doing it. I used to dance and to do the splits like that and sort of split up split up split up. You could do that . I could do one split, but to get your body up and split again, that is some crazy intense stuff. Very difficult. Sometimes you see like a guy doing a split on tape, but you dont see him come back up. He might need some help. You got james brown up top, bozeman at the bottom and we are convinced that hard work paid off. I really want to see this. So much energy. Its getting some incredible reviews. You got to be good to play the original. Bozeman might never be the same after that move. I dont know. Right now on usa today. Com you can see brown and bozeman perform all of the godfathers signature dances side by side. Its interactive. Its very cool. Check it out. Derek, dont let me stop you if youre feeling it. Youre going to do that split move and use that as an excuse not to come back at 7 00 and 11 00. My pants wouldnt survive it. Well be right back. Next week the Nations Capital<\/a> will host the first ever u. S. africa Leaders Summit<\/a> which will have a huge impact on traffic in downtown d. C. Road closures begin sunday around downtown and will be staggered based on the location of summit events around the white house, the state department and other venues. With so much Police Security<\/a> presence, its a good idea to plan on taking metro through thursday of next week. For more information on the summit and road closures, go to our website www. Wusa9. Com. Im tweeting about hey, i lost my debit card. Do you guys do instant replacement . snap what just happened . Check your wallet. No. No way. Your debit card should arrive in 710 business days. Its time to bank human again. Get debit cards on the spot, and no monthly fee checking with just a 100 minimum balance at td bank. Americas most convenient bank. In tonights health alert a new study lunging a particular Birth Control<\/a> pill to a linking a particular Birth Control<\/a> pill to a higher risk of breast cancer. Birth control pills with higher doses of estrogen may increase the risk of breast cancer. Pills with low dose estrogen did not increasing risk. Researchers say there needs to be more studies and stress that oral contraceptives have many other health benefits. New blood and saliva tests can help predict the recurrence of oral cancers link to hpv. Researchers at Johns Hopkins<\/a> screened for fragments shed from cancer cells. The doctors currently rely on cancer cells usually formed after a patient reports pain or a lump in the neck. The fda says it will begin regulating certain lab tests doctors use. The agency wants to make sure those tests help to diagnose cancer and Heart Disease<\/a> and thousands of other conditions and that theyre safe and accurate. In recent years scientists found that some labs developed tests state incorrect results for conditions such as autism and lyme disease. Tonight a former letter carrier is hopefully enjoying his first full day of retirement. His name is doug dingle. He delivered mail to the same arlington neighborhood more than 30 years. Nikki burdine was there when that neighborhood said good bye. Reporter in a little section of North Arlington<\/a> sits a neighborhood called Dominion Hills<\/a>. Thursday morning it seemed like a block party was about to start, not an unfamiliar feeling here for the neighborhood often described as mayberrylike, but this get together is for one person in particular. Its the end of an era. Reporter theyre all here to celebrate the mailman doug dingle. Doug is a rare breed. Hes basketball on the same route more than 30 years. He been on the same route more than 30 years. He loves dogs. Can you sit . Can you shake . Reporter they clearly love him. Doug gives the dogs milkbones, treats. Reporter today the bittersweet feeling is because doug is retiring from the post office. The welcome was a surprise but not surprising to doug. Look at everybody down here you going to be good . Yeah. Yeah, right. Reporter over the years hes done more than deliver the mail. Hes become a part of their lives. Every christmas he comes and he brings kids candy canes. Reporter watching families grow. cc hes taller than i am. Reporter making memories. Im going to miss the smell in your house. She bakes cookies. Reporter even on his last a day just as hes done the last 31 years he delivered the mail. Good job, buddy. Thank you, been a pleasure. Reporter in between delivering hugs, of course. We have benefited in the most beautiful way. Reporter hes never been late for his rounds even though hes worked through three hurricanes, snowmageddon, ice storms and heat indexes over 110. Hes always smiling no matter what the weather, no matter whats going on. Reporter doug recognizes this is unusual and it may be mayberryesque, but to him and Dominion Hills<\/a> residents its just the way it is. This is from me. Thank you all. Reporter in Arlington Nikki<\/a> burdine, wusa9. That is really sweet. Dominion hills made doug an honorary member of the neighborhood and he says hey, im not going anywhere. Im still going to be around but as a doug walker. The Postal Service<\/a> should use him in a commercial. Rain, sleet or snow. Weve got breaking news in wheaton. Sky9 is over the scene where a metrobus struck a pedestrian. Youre looking at whats occurring there on the scene. This is happening near the Wheaton Metro<\/a> station. Were told the person hit has a broken leg, but we dont know any other details. We will get more details and update you as soon as it comes into the newsroom. Coming up live roaches, mouse droppings, no Running Water<\/a>, that means its this weeks restaurant alert. Well bring it to you when we come back. Plus you think your sports collection is something to brag about . Wait until you see what andrew lang has. Thats next in todays inside pitch. Mmm, progressive insurance here. Ever since we launched snapshot, my life has been positively craycray. . Only a revolutionary tool that can save you bigtime. Just plug it in, and the better you drive the more cash youll stash. Switching to progressive can already save ye 500. Snapshot could save ye even more. Meat maiden bringeth to me thine spiciest wings of buffalo. Thank you daddy for defending our country. Thank you for your sacrifice and thank you for your bravery. Thank you colonel. Thank you daddy. Military families are uniquely thankful for many things the legacy of usaa Auto Insurance<\/a> can be one of them. If youre a current or former military member or their family, get an Auto Insurance<\/a> quote and see why 92 of our members plan to stay for life. In tonights restaurant alert a complaint about live roaches in one place, no Running Water<\/a> at another and mouse droppings at a third. You had me at live roaches. Heres Investigative Reporter<\/a> russ ptacek. Reporter we start with the spring mill bread company. They tout the use of only five simple ingredients for all the natural baked goods there, but it was 10 basic violations that d. C. Health inspectors cited when temporarily shutting them down. You can look it up yourself on the wusa9 restaurant alert app. Text food to 25543. Press the district. Type in spring mill bakery. Click the july 11th report and the app shows basement violations of no cold or hot water for hand water and mouse drippings. In a statement the bakery says we certainly did not intentionally try to operate out hot water. Our system was not recovering as needed and that has been fixed. We have a licensed Pest Services<\/a> monthly and do not have a problem with rodents. Now this man is using the wusa9 restaurant alert app to look up hikari sushi bar on eighth street northeast. Its july 2nd report notes 13 closure Violations Including<\/a> sewage backup observed at the sump pump area and the chef not watching hands between switching tasks. Thats not safe. You got to wash and sanitize your hands all the time. Reporter in a statement the hikaris manager says the temporary interruption of service was solely due to plumbing issues which were completely unforeseen although there were additional citations. We can confirm none compromised the integrity of our product and all were rectified immediately. Click Montgomery County<\/a> and search pollomex in silver spring. The app shows a july 14th report showing out of compliance Cold Holding Temperature<\/a> and rodents and insects. Montgomery countys digital data doesnt provide details, so we pulled paperwork showing citations like potentially hazardous foods observed being held at 50 degrees and above in malfunctioning cooler and live roaches and their lymph observed. In a statement pollomex says we are, of course, dedicated to the cleanliness for our customers. Grab your smart tone and check the wusa9 restaurant alert app yourself. You can track all the most recent inspections of the restaurants which they have passed and theyre all back in business. Text food to 25543 and well send you a link. Im Investigative Reporter<\/a> russ ptacek, wusa9. This is a yellow alert day, now heres wusa9 first alert weather. That little ditty is catchy, isnt it . Not like james brown, but kind of bopping moving kind of like what we do in dodging showers maybe. Yes. Well be dodging showers. Lets see if i can clearly state this for mr. Mcginty. Its not going to be a washout of a weekend. You can go for a bike ride or play a round of golf. If you dont mind getting wet while youre doing it. I got to move on. You have to dance around some showers. Tonights not bad. You want to grill out, you can. Temperatures, august 1 only 80, relative humidity only 54 , thats a deal, believe me. Heres the radar. Over the past couple hours this is the loop. You can see the activity has begun to move off to the north and east away from us. The heaviest activity by far and away was in Southern Maryland<\/a> and east of i95 which will be the focus again tomorrow morning. We get these little disturbances that roll through and have a little time in between them to do some stuff outside. This is all light. Remember, about an hour ago it activity. Its all green from clinton to accokeek. This will drift northward, but nothing heavy. It will weaken farther toward alexandria and silver hill. It could sprinkle at nats stadium, but by the time the game starts i think it will be fine. So we have to keep an isolated shower in tonight, but the activity develops again late tonight and tomorrow morning. We have morning storms, heaviest east of i95. So get ready, Southern Maryland<\/a>, Charles County<\/a>, st. ;o marys qscounty, calvert, Prince Georges County<\/a> and anne arundel. Saturday night it wanes. We have a break. Youll be able to probably do some stuff outdoors saturday night and i think in the afternoon tomorrow youll be able to do some stuff outdoors. The farther west you go, the better off you are in the morning. The farther east, the better off you are in the afternoon. Futurecast, 5 00 in the morning, theres that little swath of moisture, the heaviest activity in Southern Maryland<\/a> and the northern neck. By 8 00 it moves away. Youll be able to do some stuff outside. 9 30 still clouds, a couple sprinkles popping up. If youre jogging, its refreshing. Temps are in the 70s. By 4 00 a couple showers here and there popping up, especially in the afternoon. The focus shifts to the west around i81 corridor and by 6 p. M. Maybe a shower gaithersburg, leesburg to manassas, all light activity. Then they begin to push off to the mountains going nighttime hours saturday. Again saturday night i think youll be able to have that cookout without any worries. So day planner, this is a little more ominous than it is, 69 at 9 00, 70 at 11 00, a little sun finally by 1 p. M. With temperatures in the mid 70s. So theres your yellow alert tomorrow, thunderstorms, more to the east, 82, scattered storms sunday, 83, isolated storms monday, 88. The next seven days isolated storms tuesday, near 90, isolated storms wednesday, really nice, mid80s and nice thursday and friday, low humidity and temps in the mid 80s. Some baseball moments are so good you wish you could live in that moment forever. Or in some cases you just want to take a foul ball home. In todays inside pitch Holden Kushner<\/a> takes you to the home of one fan who might hold the biggest collection of nats memorabilia in the world. This might look like your normal everyday man cave, but its not. This 25 miles away from Nationals Park<\/a> could be the most significant collection of nationals memorabilia in existence. Potomac, maryland resident andrew lang has been collecting nats memorabilia since the team moved to town in 2005. One of his prized possessions comes from former nats catcher brian schneider. In 2007 schneider was behind home plate when barry bonds passed hank aaron as the all time home runs leader. Brian sees me and goes hey, i got something really cool for you. He comes back with his chest protector and he goes do you remember when mike 756 home runs to barry bonds . Im like yeah. He goes this is the chest protector. So we signed it and basset signed it. Reporter to a slightly less prolific slugger lang owns this bat used by starting pitcher Jordan Zimmermann<\/a> during his Major League Debut<\/a> in 2009. This is his first ever bat. I thought this was really great, got this from the nationals right after his first game. They misspelled his name and i dont know if it was mike wallace or jordan himself who wrote in the extra n, but i thought that was pretty cool. Reporter and then theres this gem from the nats first ever playoff game in 2012, a game used baseball that came off Bryce Harpers<\/a> bat. Anything touched by harper, this was his first at about the and it was like havent seen anything like this before and he fouled the ball off and hit the front of the home plate and it just split. Reporter when it comes to historically significant nats memorabilia, its quite possible that andrew lang has it in this hidden nationals museum. For wusa9 sports, im Holden Kushner<\/a>. Thats after nine years. Imagine his collection after 29 years and if you thought some of that stuff was cool, wait till next week. Holden digs even deeper into langs collection. These chrysler vehicles involved in fiery crashes were recalled more than a year ago. Coming up more information about the automakers fix for millions of these suvs. Reporter a revamped Border Security<\/a> bill make its way to the house floor, but will do honking people are so impatient, right . You know what it is, its waiting. 10 minutes or 10 hours people dont like waiting. sheep sounds you know at comcast, we dont want you to wait at all. With our new xfinity my account app, you can troubleshoot technical issues request a call back or chat with an expert via twitter. Can you wait just a second . Hey, can you move please . I hate sheep. Introducing the xfinity my account app. More bickering over Border Security<\/a> today as house lawmakers considered a slightly revamped pieces of immigration legislation. Republicans pulled that measure yesterday, didnt have enough votes to go forward. They delayed a planned vacation. The proposal was supposed to deal with the tens of thousands of children who are streaming across the border from central america, but as Craig Boswell<\/a> rts, there wont be any money or security heading to the border any time soon. Reporter frustration bubbled on the house floor as republicans planned to vote on the revised bill to address the immigration crisis. Your bill was not punitive enough for these children, so you went back and made it worse. Reporter the new gop proposal adds 35 million for National Guard<\/a> soldiers at the southwest border. Gop leaders believed the 694 million bill will now have support of tea Party Republicans<\/a> who say president obama created this problem when he signed an executive order delaying deportation for some immigrants brought to the u. S. As children. Its only begun to be remotely visible in 2012. That coincides with some of the president s unilateral abrogation of the immigration law. They made it a little more extreme so maybe they can pass it today. Reporter republicans want to block president obama from taking executive action on the issue. That proposal doomed a Senate Version<\/a> of the bill. Thursday evening the senate rejected a much Larger Emergency Fund<\/a> measure and members are already leaving town for a fiveweek recess. What has happened to the United States<\/a> senate . Reporter even with action in the house nothing will make it to the president s desk any time soon. Craig boswell, cbs news, capitol hill. President obama says because congress failed to pass an immigration bill, he will have to take executive action while the house and senate are on recess. Whats happened to Jonnie Williams<\/a> memory . Im peggy fox in richmond. Coming up well tell you about the crossexamination of the prosecutions star witness. Reporter this is Hank Silverberg<\/a> in Northern Virginia<\/a> where sexting continues to be a dilemma for children, their parents and prosecutors. Reporter im dave owens. Football and politics intertwined, governorrer it mcauliffe makes a stop through redskins Governor Terry<\/a> mcauliffe makes a stop through redskins Training Camp<\/a> and the name change debate takes center stage. You see those few patches of green . They are enough to trigger a yellow alert for tonight. Good evening. Thanks for being here. Im derek mcginty. Im lesli foster. Topper says the showers and storms are moving through our area. Whats showing on the futurecast right now . We may end up cancelling this yellow alert tonight. I think most of the folks will be fine north and west of i95. South of town we had heavy activity earlier. Even that is waning. A couple showers now Prince Georges County<\/a> and quantico. It will drift up 95. For the most part the heaviest activity is now east of annapolis and across into the bay and delmarva. Well zoom in. 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